Conversation

1) I'm increasingly love/hating RibbonFarm as an older sibling more and more... It's like a brother thought-sphere that's just old enough to be outside my realm of resonance on first glance but in retrospect was really just a more polished version of what I was moving towards.
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2) It looks like mediocracy has been a theme on RF for a while, and although I'm partial to the the term continuous-adjacency, I think my personal character is best described as that of being overwhelmingly open to mediocre novelty.
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4) This works well with being a novelty junkie. In any environment I have some tricks that seem impressive to the current group but are severely underwhelming to any group who actually practices said tricks.
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5) Unfortunately not all tricks are legible to all groups Flips are cool to nerds, but philosophy is not cool to jocks. There's probably some fractally rock-paper-scissors going on here.
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